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This article examines how artists, activism, and works of art may contribute to a more textured understanding of debt … artists are organizers and activists are manifest in the Global Ultra Luxury Faction (G.U.L.F.), advocacy initiatives by … Working Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.), and alternative, trans-local projects such as the Arts Collaboratory …
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Recent decades of financialisation have seen a significant growth in art that mobilises various forms of money as … artistic media. These range from the integration of material money (coins, bills, credit cards) into aesthetic processes, such …, economics, and the dynamics of the art market. This article explores three (and a half) strategies that artists use to engage …
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occurring at the incorrect scale. Rather than being some form of trans-national digital money to be used alongside or compete … with national fiat currencies, I argue that, instead, each cryptocurrency represents its own self-contained "money …
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Recently parallels have been drawn between Bitcoin and Yapese stone money. This article focuses on Fitzpatrick and … McKeon’s (2019) exploration of similarities and differences. The analogy between Bitcoin and Yapese stone money is based on … Yapese stone money using terminology from the field of cryptocurrency reproduces a longer textual history in which writers …
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This essay identifies two approaches to theorizing the relationship between financialization and contemporary art. The first departs from an analysis of how market logics in non-financial spheres are being transformed to facilitate financial circulation; the other considers valuation practices...
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Clare McAndrew is a leading analyst of the global art market. Here the guest editors of this special issue interview McAndrew on the structures of the art market, its sectorial and regional arrangements, and transformations in its historical, technical, and monetary operation. Their discussion...
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The term "volatility" applies to changeability: both that which can be measured, such as temperatures and stock prices, and that which cannot be easily measured, such as affects and emotions. Quantitative financial volatility has typically been studied quite separately from art, culture, and...
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